According to Gartner, Inc. enterprises that
systematically manage the lifecycle of their
IT assets will reduce theircost per asset by
as much as 30% during the first year
and between 5-10 percent annually during the
next five years.Additionally this same study
indicates that up to 30% of all organizations are
in a “chaotic” state, meaning they do not know
what they own, where the assets are located,
and who is using them. Another 45% are in a
“reactive” state, meaning they track assets on a
project-by-project basis, such as a licensing audit,
never stopping to fully analyse the data.

Source: Gartner, Inc,

In addition to the financial impact for Asset
Management, there is also the legal reason to do
so. Proper Asset Management will help public
companies comply with Governmental regulations

Knowing what you have

Gaining visibility and control of availability was
significantly improved through the introduction
of automated discovery, Event correlation and
fault isolation across domains.These abilities
unified the infrastructure and enabled the
leveraging of cross-domain event information to
help understand which event was the root cause
and which events were simply symptomatic. For
example, if a distribution router is down, services
and users behind that router will appear unavailable.
Through automated event correlation and fault
isolation,the root cause of a problem becomes
apparent andfinding and fixing it becomes faster and
easier. Automated discovery, event correlation and
fault isolation help gain control of availability.